AMD 64 3200+ Venice Core OC Setup?

[Jaffa_Cake]

AMD 64 3200+ Venice Core

Hello there,

I am relativity new to this, been on pre build pc's until 4 weeks ago when I finally plucked up the courage to build my own PC.

After a long discussion with people who know about this than I do, iIchose:

CPU: AMD 64 3200+ Venice Core (skt 939)
RAM: Corsair XMS 1 GB - DIMM 184-PIN - DDR
Gfx: Sparkle 7600GS 512mb
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 - NF4

So i thought i would try and overclock it all.

Started not overclocked at CPU idle temp is 36c and 2006mhz

I then tried putting the CPU speed up to 2200mhz which worked fine at standard voltage of 1.44V. I have heard these cores can go up as high as 2700mhz on air so i tried putting it up again, slowly crept past 2350mhz on standard voltage.

As i hit 2350mhz it would not go any higher, i had left the HT link at X5 and not touched the multiplier at X10. Anything above 2350mhz would reboot the system at startup, i tried putting the voltage up everything between 0.1 and 0.3 with no effect.

Was wondering if anyone has a similar setup to get a higher clock. I have one 12 CM and one 9 CM thermaltake fans for cooling which i asume will be enough to get atleast 2500mhz from a stock of 2000.

 

[Jaffa_Cake]

I doubt its my ram, its the most expensive part of my pc

I will go try that now and post results

 

[Jaffa_Cake]

Got it clocked with ease to 2500mhz, turned the CPU/DDR ratio down, turns out the RAM was run to its limit .

Thanks for the help